This week on Techpoint: Working nomads, VR for education and more

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“Won’t you go to work today?”

If you have to answer this question or a different version of it frequently, especially with the suspicious glare that it typically comes with, then you probably belong to the league of remote workers.

Well, in this part of the world, that could also make you some sort of alien — a lot of people still do not understand that you can get the work done without leaving your home.

Lagos-based SMEs are beginning to embrace the remote work culture and it’s working. Read more.

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Womanpreneur of the Month. This month, we linked up with Chidiadi Madumere, founder and MD of Black Purist Media Limited, a marketing communications and strategic marketing agency that has worked with both emerging and leading brands across Nigeria.

Doing business in Nigerian context is far different from the US. With about 3 years’ experience running Singularity Investments, a private capital-backed investment vehicle that has funded companies like Flutterwave and Paystack, Principal Investment Officer, Lexi Novitske shares relevant insight on the African startup scene.

The blind spot in Nigeria’s eCommerce industry everyone seems to miss. Many critics have pegged the sluggish rate of adoption of eCommerce in Nigeria to the unreadiness/non-existence of the market. But our guest contributor, Oyihoma Saleh thinks they are wrong.

How virtual reality can help revamp the Nigerian educational system. The Nigerian education system has been plagued with serious problems.

Interventions like giving out computers or tablets to schools alone cannot tackle this problem. However, using virtual reality to create immersive learning experiences can make a difference.